Help. Socket removal

[335-pilot]

Ok had a look at the job now and I have a plan. They have taken out a stud wall so there is a socket or two which need removing..Fortunately it's fairly new wiring and now has loads of wire now coiled into the ceiling.My plan is to run this ring cable under the floor and terminate in a seperate fuse from which I plan to run a spur. Thanks for the constructive answers guys and the others not so constructive, the whole point of my post was to get the best and most professional result. I'm not too proud to ask for advice or opinions I lack experience. if the knockers out there have a better idea how to get started do tell.Once again thanks for the advice, it's really appreciated.

 

[telectrix]

if you use pvc tape just for fastening cable to your rods for fishing you won't go far wrong. any joints, choc block or wagos, should not be taped, but enclosed in a joint box. happy days.

 

[DNS1]

Can't the disconnected cabling just remain in the wall?

If it's cut from the circuit and dead as a dodo is there anything wrong with plastering over it?

I've done a few replastering jobs before where I've found now defunct cables in a wall following a rewire.

 

[telectrix]

Can't the disconnected cabling just remain in the wall?

If it's cut from the circuit and dead as a dodo is there anything wrong with plastering over it?

I've done a few replastering jobs before where I've found now defunct cables in a wall following a rewire.

if i read the OP correctly, the cable is not "dead", it's a ring final with a couple of sockets removed. circuit still in use.

 

[DNS1]

if i read the OP correctly, the cable is not "dead", it's a ring final with a couple of sockets removed. circuit still in use.

Sorry, I meant, if the section supplying the sockets was cut out of the circuit completely and the ring reconnected elsewhere.

 

[335-pilot]

Telectrix you assume correctly. However all the cables will now be used and run under floor boards to a surface mounted fuse (13A?) which will sit in a cupboard, then a spur run along the safe zone to a new socket in the new wall.

 

[335-pilot]

Ah ok I see what your saying yes I guess that would be an option but the time consuming bit would be getting to the source of that bit of the ring, which I think is the consumer unit which is 3 rooms away and lots of furniture and floorboards to disturb.My question was really is it unthinkable to connect a ring up and plaster it over,which I guessed would be frowned upon but wanted ideas and options.

 

[JUD]

Telectrix you assume correctly. However all the cables will now be used and run under floor boards to a surface mounted fuse (13A?) which will sit in a cupboard, then a spur run along the safe zone to a new socket in the new wall.

If you're only spuring one socket off the ring then there's no need for FCU (fused connection unit) as long as the cable feeding the spur is the same size as the ring.

It's only if there will be more than one that you will need one. Have a look at Appendix 15, page 362 in BS 7671.

 

[335-pilot]

Hi Jud, thanks I am aware of that but the location of the spur will be such that it will probably feed a tv and subject to future additions so thought it would be prudent to ad a FCU at this point rather than later.

 

[Amp David]

If the sockets that have been removed were part of the RFC, then where is the other end of the RFC?

 

[335-pilot]

It looks like the socket I have to remove is the first socket in the RFC, the cables are long enough to move to a convenient location where I intend to replace the socket with a FCU then run a spur from that to the new wall.

 

[Amp David]

Ok, well why not then add the new sockets as part of the ring then, and do away with faffing about with an FCU. Better design IMO

 

[335-pilot]

cos I would need to add a socket or FCU to the "convenient location", which is in a cupboard (no use for a socket) and I am thinking a spur will be easier and cheaper to run.

 

[Amp David]

Ok then:seeya: